Eternal Horizons - Fallsvale Tavern (Inactive)

Game Master Jacob DeCourcey

Evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Have you ever wanted to roll up a character, jump into an unknown world, and start exploring? Danger lurks around every corner. Your survival is not guaranteed. But, if you are able to return safely, your name will go down in history as a legendary adventurer. Of course, you may also be eaten by a bugbear on your first day out.

I’m currently running another PbP campaign here, but this one would be almost completely opposite of that. In the People’s campaign, the game is based around the players, what they want, and what their characters want. This is a game focused on the world, not the characters. It is in the style of Ben Robbin’s West Marches.

You take your roles as adventurers, seeking long-lost treasures and myth, arriving in the border town of Fallsvale. Fallsvale is the westernmost town in the civilized world, because no one dares venture beyond it. In ancient times, the Eternal Horizons, as these distant lands are called, were populated and civilized with all manner of man and beast. But, eons ago, a blight wiped out humanity. The land quickly became feral, teeming with dangers, and the treasure and lore of the Horizon was lost. Recently, however, adventurers (you!) have begun to venture forth to explore and unearth the secrets of the Eternal Horizon.

Here is a list of “fluffy” rules:
There is no fixed plot. The adventure is exploration.
There is no fixed party. The characters venture forth with whomever they choose.
There is no adventure in town or anywhere else but in the Eternal Horizons.
There is no guarantee of survival. If you wander into something for which you are not prepared, you will die.
I, the GM, am not on any faction’s team. I will make all rolls in the open, and the dice, combined with your decisions, will determine your fates.
Any information that is gained about the Horizon will be from characters who have returned alive.

Here is a “crunchy” translation of those rules plus some others:
There will be a pool of, say, 15 players, each with a character, and the players will determine if and when and with whom to make a foray into the wild.
There will be a maximum of 3 parties of at most 4 players at any given time.
Each expedition will last no longer than 4 weeks real life time, at which point the characters must immediately return to town.
The discussion an gameplay portions of this thread are dedicated to “The Tavern” where characters and player can make parties, chat about adventures, and do a little characterization.
This recruitment thread will stay open for the foreseeable future, since player may leave, take breaks, or disappear. I will “bump” this thread any time there is an opening.
Each player may have 1 active character at a time.
If a character dies, the player may introduce a new character back in town at ½ the dead character’s level. If a character retires, no gear may be transferred to a new character.
I will set up an obsidian portal wiki to allow players to contribute to the knowledge base. Of course, all knowledge may not be accurate, but I will keep a close watch for trolls spreading malicious lies.
I will never write or edit any game summaries or maps. That must be done by the characters.

The Characters
15 point build
Level 1
Paizo content only
No guns
No traits
Average gold
Max hp 1st level, roll for the rest
Fast experience progression (with mondo-huge bonuses for being the first to discover something)
In order to submit a character, get your alias game-ready. It’s that simple. If you want backstory, do it. If not, just a personality will be enough.

I am very certain that more things will come up soon. Feel free to post questions or comments in the thread, in addition to signing up.

Would I be able to play a tiny halfing cavalier?

(I ride on a dire rat equipped with chainmail...)

You can play whatever you like, really. This is a sandbox, after all. I must warn you, though, if this fellow dies (he probably will) I frown upon reintroducing the (mostly) same character again.

Hmmmm... I'll start at once!

Golarion dieties? Racial restrictions?

Damn, you got me hooked here :P Universal Wizard, here I come!

dotting for interest, will be posting character with profile shortly. Is there any restrictions against Lawful evil characters?

Yes! I remember reading about West Marches for the first time some years ago and thinking how awesome it would be. Count me in; I'll have a character up not long after my finals are over (last one today).

By the way, I really like the "four weeks max" thing. It should keep things rolling pretty well. But I have one concern: what do you plan to do with self-interested parties, lying about their expedition to keep others from raiding a zone of potential interest? Is the Obsidian Portal wiki going to be an in-character compendium of the knowledge gathered from the reports of the various parties, or an out-of-character repository to find accurate information about the land?

@Jelani - Don't care, terribly. As long as it's pathfinder and you're not being a munchkin you can do whatever you want. One of the reasons I wanted to do this is so that people can just try out characters.

@Galrian - Awesome. Glad you have you.

@Tierce - No, but you may not ever, never, ever actively undermine the party in any way. You can be selfish, and even leave them behind, but you can't steal, kill, or destroy any of their possessions nor may you cause general mayhem. Also be aware that you may have trouble finding a group willing to go out with you if you build a reputation of being a stinker.

Now that there are a few folks interested, don't forget to post with your game-ready character to confirm your slot in the game. In my other game, I left for a day, and when I got back, I had a dozen applicants.

Ah @Hurley - ninja'd. The idea is that the wiki would be in character, full of character-made descriptions and potentials error or lies. However, since I just now decided to require that all articles be signed with the name of the character who wrote them, certain characters will surely develop reputations for being accurate and other will not. The in and out of character social aspect is a big part of this game. It's like I said to Tierce, you may have a hard time getting anyone to trust you if you are known for lying.

That being said, how would it be to treat the wiki like a book, and never remove information. If you want to change something, cross it out and write the new thing beneath it. That way, we could have a bit of a history of the exploration of a given site, in addition to bringing a bit of accountability to the guide.

Very cool, loving this already. For the fluff-crunch (I'm looking at you, divine casting), are we defaulting to Golarion's established canon?

@Hurley - For the most part, I'd say. If you really need it to be something different, I could endorse that, too.

Yes yes yes Meet Saxton Quinn A Psionic this is what hes life is all about, falling into know worlds knowing nothing, (I can Tweek him to fit your outline, hes in no other game)

Saxton sits in a tavern looking at the drink they say is alcoholic
he has not been her long and he few gems he had seem to pass as money here
so he has a room. But what to do with himself. He hears talk of profit and money to be made scouting out a lost land near here,
well well looks like there may be a way to make a living here after all.

This is Jelani, here is a skeleton of my submission. More will be coming later. Basically an archetypal conqueror (Ceasar, Ghengis Khan, Charlemange, etc), he seeks to subject and bring order to as much of the wilderness as possible.. Crunch-wise just a zen archer, been wanting to try one. Also always wanted to play a hobgoblin.

Here appears the universalist wizard :)

Here is Tierce's application. Lawful Evil Tiefling (Demon) Fighter (Two-Weapon Fighter)

Alright, crunch is up. I dunno why monk's only get 35 gold, not even enough for a longbow. They should give Zen Archers a bow of choice like a gunslinger or something.

I have been kicking around some ideas to keep combat moving, since there will be a decent amount of it, and I don't want it sucking up the limited time on expeditions. Instead of individual initiative, I will roll initiative for the party and enemies as groups. During the players' turns, they will be able to post at any time and in any order. Once all the player have posted, or one RL day goes by, I will post all of the enemies actions at once.

OK, the wiki is up. Go ahead and make a page for your character.

Eternal Horizons

I'd be interested... Here's my character - cleric of Sarenrae - ignore the traits - they were put there for another game.

Thanks for fixing the link :)

How do we make a page for our character? Do you need to add us first?

I'm a little fuzzy on how OP works. For me, there's a link in the right hand toolbar that says "create page"

There's no link for me because I'm not a member of the campaign yet - you have to add people I think. My name on OP is 'jafo' if that helps with adding me. I think once you add me to the campaign, I can create a character, though like you, I don't know how that works exactly - I've only ever been a player on OP, not a GM.

Aha. That makes sense. Jaf0, you have an invite. Everyone else, make an OP username and post it and I'll invite you.

westernwolf777 is my new OP username

spuglyfuglt is my new OP username

GM under the "comments" Tab in OP users can leave requests to join the game, I have done one to show, an OP user dos not need to be have been made a subscriber to the game too do this. I would ask that any one who wants to be considered should post one line there stating there OP account name.

ok... thanks jacob - my basic character is up on OP now.

looks cool Fionnbharanel love the pc sheet

Thanks... they have a nice interactive sheet for PF, made it really easy to just plug in the info.

Pity Rosa Luminass won't be joining us Mr. Quinn -wink-

would you like here to, shes a bad girl :)

We could be lawful evil together, crushing all beneath our iron-shod soles. I guess there's already a LE Tiefling that wields a big sword in the party though. Might be a little too much overlap, and in case you haven't guessed this is your Dalian DM speaking ^_^

aaargh I hope everyone isnt gonna be LE or my poor CG cleric won't be able to find a group to adventure with lol

nope Rosa is LN all the way, and the other Tef is a Two weapon user Fighter where as Rosa is a Great sword using Cleric, not a lot of overlap that is if you think having elves is overlap etc. GM could I drop Saxton and Submit Rosa, I think she will fit better in the game place and as a Cleric may be of use more. Thanks GM if you need me to place Saxton (but note the PC sheets do not support Sonic that I can see so that may be a none starter) in I will but for now Ill go with Rosa if I may.

Ah, I misread the (two-weapon fighter) as (two handed fighter), my bad.

@Fionn- I'll adventure with you, I'll just ignore your foolish anarchic tendancies and do what's needed to bring order.

Hmm, interesting, possible to join? You are missing Arcane character this moment

PS. account created in Obsidian Portal: Amar_Furzen

LE Monk, LE Fighter, LN Cleric, LN Wizard? Sounds like a decent party to me. Fionn can come if she wants, but that's up to her.

Dropping in to post my Lion Shaman... Not quite finished but should have it all done tomorrow. Will create an OP then too

Created Obsidian Portal account: MierraJayde

and I'm game for the "lawful" party!

It looks like we have 6 players so far. I'll finish up my prep work today and tomorrow, and we'll start on Sunday. I'm just now going to open up the discussion and gameplay threads that go with this one. They will be the tavern OoC and IC threads.

I still need to get an alias made up, but I'll be going with an archaeologist bard. He'll be "whip-smart".

Presenting Ira, because we need more chaos in here. I have most stats finished but not in the alias yet, things are looking rather tiefling heavy already, but hopefully in different parties it wont be a huge deal, and this one is neutral aligned with a burning hatred for those of demon/devil blood... I was thinking that we could get a more chaotic party going with Wildmane and Fion, but apparently despite his name Tensen Wildmane is Lawful >.> Also as a wild rager Ira is somewhat dangerous, so traveling with her is a risk.

EDIT: Username on OP is Jehova.

and this one is neutral aligned with a burning hatred for those of demon/devil blood...

Interesting, Mierra is demon born, might be an interesting rivalary

... I was thinking that we could get a more chaotic party going with Wildmane and Fion, but apparently despite his name Tensen Wildmane is Lawful >.>

Psht, wild and chaotic are two very different things :) The lawful nature only comes from his ideal of "survive or die". Natural selection and all that jazz.

Commented on the OP, add me please!

Awesome, didn't even check that. I'm assuming we're going to attempt to avoid PvP if possible, but it should still add some drama to have parties of opposed alignments.

Alright, got most of the crunch out of the way, still working on spells and gear. One Mr. Jackson Fox, archaeologist extraordinaire!

@ Gaius Vekkhar O it looks like the Hell's will have a large showing in the undiscovered lands, bringing law to the lawless lands. and with Mierra Jayde we scould have a LN band v other CG ones seeking the goodys, now that would be fun, Food fights in the Inn. Raso dos not care about good and evil, they are temporary perspective points and a diversion from the great conflict between law that holds reallity together and the fromless mad dreams of chaos that would end all sanity. Only the Iron rule of the mind matters.

Rosa is up and in the Inn, Blessed be the rule of law.

GM if your happy with Rosa I can move could you let me know tanks

GM,

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Don't forget, everyone, we're still recruiting! Plenty of room for adventurers and treasure seekers!